Research Records

Our filming for our documentary was done in Blackpool on thursday the 3rd of december at 11:00am, however i didn't take part in this day as i couldn't get there as i didn't have the money and it was short notice. However before going we had researched into blackpool and blackpool pier to find out about the forutne tellings and the different booths there which we could film on.



This shows us the information about the fortune telling and gave us a bit of history about it, it tells us who she is and where abouts she can be found. Blackpool is a good palce to film as it doesn't only have fortune booths that we could film but it has arcades which we could film and include in our documentary as footage and good cut aways.

Here are some pictures that were taken at blackpool from the two other people in my group:

       
                                

Tea Leaves
This was done at Beccii's house where one of her family friends came round to be interviewed which would be included in our documentary so we would have different types of fortune telling in our documentary.
Here are a few images of how the room which the interwiew was taken place in was set up:
(mise en scene)

Codes And Conventions

The Voiceover -
This tells the audience what is going on in the documentary and gives it a flow. The narrator may be involved in the event. Gives the documentary more detailed information.

Real Footage -
Gives it more credibility. Also to make the documentary more believable and to interest the audience watching the documentary.

Often covert in nature and entertaining a sceptical audience -
There is no opportunity for them o respond. Non biased.

Documentary film makers go to great lengths to convince us that footage is real and un-altered -
Voiceover is influencial.

Natural sound and lighting -
Makes the documentary more original.

Archive footage and stills -
Has relevance to the documentary. Backs up the point.

Interviews with experts -
To get opinions and views on the documentary. May interest the audience knowing different opinions and views.

Graphics and Titling -
To show the names of the people who may be interviewed in the documentary, it could say who they are and what they do which could show there relevance to the documentary.


Talking Heads -
Things such as the rule of thirds.


Hand Held Camera -
Could include the real footage within the documentary.

Six types of different documentarys.

Poetic documentaries
Gave out a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing grammar of the early fiction film. It first appeared in the 1920’s. It was a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing grammar of the early fiction film. The poetic mode moved away from continuity editing and instead organized images of the material world by means of associations and patterns, both in terms of time and space.

Expository documentaries
This speaks directly to the viewer. It was often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. It would try to persuade the viewer of the documentary.

Observational documentaries
This type of ducument tends to attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked in this sub-genre often saw the poetic mode as too abstract and the expository mode as too didactic.
Participatory documentaries
'Believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed.' What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. The filmmaker is part of the film and we would also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by his or her presence.

Reflexive documentaries
This type of document makes you question. This documument doesnt see itselve as a trasnparent window, its makes you see somthing in a different way. It is the most self-conscious of all the documentarys, which is  highly skeptical of ‘realism.’

Performative documentaries
A Performatice documentary gives out an emotional responce to the viewers. They are strongly personal and unconventional. It also 'might include hypothetical enactments of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to possess a certain specific perspective on the world that is not our own.'

Evaluation

I believe my final project turned out well as me and the people in my group made sure we did everything we could to make our filming and editing up to a good standard. For example we made sure we used a lot of different people for our filming and made sure we used the tripod when possible. However at one point we couldn’t used the tripod as we were missing a piece from the camera which attaches the camera to the tripod so we had to do a bit of filming hand held which may effect our final piece.
If I were to do this project again I would make sure I would use the tripod at all times to make the filming steady and I would make sure there were more cut aways within our editing of our filming as we could of used more than we did.
A lot of the final piece went well, for example we used confident people, we had good shots of different things such as different types of phones, people on phones, people talking about mobile phones and so on. We also edited different types of ring tones into the back of our filming to give it a better effect. As well as this we used a different range of shots and made sure we talked about the things we should do within our final piece.
We decided to used a high key lighting for most of our final piece, for example we did a lot of filming outside or in a really lit corridor or classroom, this was so the final piece was shown clearly and it was easy to see and understand.
The equipment we used all went well apart from the one time when we couldn’t find the piece of equipment which attaches the camera to the tripod therefore the filming wouldn’t be steady at that point. Also the microphone was quite difficult to use as when we filmed with the microphone it was quite difficult to figure out what the person was saying who we were filming.
The people we used in our final piece all were confident and discussed the things that needed to be discussed within this project. However some of the people we used weren’t as confident and didn’t seem to sure with what they were doing and had to ask questions when it came to filming.
Within the filming we decided as a group to re-shoot certain things a couple of times just in case it went wrong or we could get a better shot of that shot.
In conclusion I believe our filming and editing for this final piece went good and we did the best we could, the only things I would change if I were to re-do this project would be using the tripod more often and use more cut aways.

Rule of thirds

The Simpsons anniversary special in 3d on ice part 1

Codes And Conventions Of Filming And Editing

Codes and Conventions of a Documentary

-People being interviewed, framed in a medium shot, medium close up or close up.
-Interviewees framed to left or right of the screen. To show a range of shots when having more than one interview.
-Framing with the rule of thirds. Eyeline is a third of the way down the frame.
-Interviewees looking at the interviewer, not the camera.
If the interviewee is on the RIGHT the interviewer is on the LEFT, and the likewise.
-Mise en scene, the background reinforces the content of the interview.
-Interviews are never filmed with the light behind, the light is always in front of the interviewee.
-Questions the interviewees are being asked, are edited out.
-Cutaways are put into interviews for two reasons: 1. To break up the interviewand to illistrate what the interviewee is talking about. 2. To avoid jump cuts when questions are edited out
-Cutaways are either: 1. Archive material 2. Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview. 3. Sometimes aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as exstream close ups of eyes, mouths and hands and used as cutaways.
-Graphics are used to anchor who the person on screen is and their revelance to the topic of the document.